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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineJun 3, 2021
Season 6 Review:
It's a soul-crushing realistic depiction of the banality of evil. [7 - 20 Jun 2021, p.6]
The IndependentMar 25, 2021
Season 6 Review:
The question is whether the show’s any good. On the evidence of this frenetic, nerve-jangling opener: yes. After the more outlandish conspiratorial shenanigans of series five, the first episode of series six returns to what Line of Duty does best: dodgy coppers, tense action and characters who communicate almost exclusively in acronyms.
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May 13, 2019
Season 5 Review:
Duty returns with a taut, screw-turning examination of an undercover officer gone rogue--the kind of slow-burn drama that earns your devotion. [17/24 May 2019, p.90]
The GuardianMay 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Yes, there are times when Mercurio seems to want to be David Simon just a little too much – I'm going to put the line about "coming at the king" down to Lennie James' Tony Gates being a massive Omar fan in his secret inner life – but this first episode was taut, tightly scripted and well acted all round.
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May 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s a little like “The Shield,” the FX show that starred Michael Chiklis as a corrupt cop, but it’s a lot more like “Spiral,” the sleek French crime series on Netflix that has a cult following in Britain and the United States. So basically, “Line of Duty” is the opposite of “Downton Abbey,” except in certain elemental ways: an excellent cast, skillful writing and a knack for making an exotic, unfamiliar world seem like the viewer’s second home.
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May 10, 2019
Season 5 Review:
It still holds up as a compelling story, even if you're missing the myriad call-back references from the first four seasons. ... It's a testament to Mercurio that just when you think, "Well, this person is clearly guilty, as all the evidence suggests," he's got multiple switch-backs and loopholes to play with.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 9, 2019
Season 5 Review:
Much like in Bodyguard, a jolting twist at the season's midpoint changes everything, and what initially seemed like solid and smartly done procedural becomes urgent, must-finish-now TV. [13-26 May 2019, p.11]
The TelegraphMay 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
I want to see what happens next to DC Gates. Lennie James brilliantly captured the odious ambiguity of his character: a man who is part hero, part the sort of person who looks at a crime scene littered with dismembered body parts and concludes “it’s big, it’s sexy, and that makes it mine”.
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